RIAA, MPAA, Christmas. Bah! Humbug!
p2pnet news view MPAA | RIAA:- Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without the traditional corporate entertainment cartel humbug.
Usually, the RIAA kicks things off, threatening Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music ‘consumers’ with dire consequences if they don’t buy corporate ‘product’.
But this year, Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures are joining in the Christmas fun.
And so are US immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) assistant secretary John Morton, assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer and “other federal officials” from the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, says the RIAA.
BUT! —- no worries.
The MPAA and RIAA are on hand.
“Working together with ICE and the IPR Center, key federal law enforcement agencies and the entertainment industry have struck a real blow to the illegal trafficking of pirated and counterfeit goods during the important holiday season,” says the RIAA’s Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol. “It’s unfortunately an often lucrative ‘business’ that is the breeding ground for other dangerous criminal activity and it undermines our ability to invest in the new bands of tomorrow. It also takes money directly out of the pocket of working musicians, songwriters and many others who work countless hours to create great music and bring it to the public. We’re grateful for the hard work and dedication of ICE agents we worked closely with on this important initiative.”
Says the MPAA’s Dan ‘The Joker’ Glickman, each ‘pirated’ DVD “represents a theft, not just from the motion picture studios, but from the hard earned wages of these men and women working in all 50 states of our union. In these difficult economic times, that is a price our workers, our industry, and indeed, our nation cannot afford. So we applaud the law enforcement agencies here today for their commitment and dedication to our common struggle.”
But wait!
Maybe Bainwol (left) and Glickman can chip in to help all those starving workers!
“Want to know how much RIAA spin doctor in chief Mitch Bainwol pulled down as principal front man for Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG in their grim and relentless pursuit of their own customers, whom they call criminals and thieves? – p2pnet asked last year, going on
Bainwol raked in $1,472,944 in 2006.
But for 2008, the figure need to be adjusted —- upwards —- says The Patry Copyright Blog, quoting DC political magazine National Journal.
It doesn’t say what RIAA president Sherman ‘earned,’ but it’s probably significantly more than Bainwol.
After all. chairpersons come and go but …………….
In 2005, he got “$1.13 million, but his boss, Bainwol, received a trifling $908,848,” said p2pnet, and in 2003, Sherman took home $1 million, says ZDNet.
So what about Glickman?
He hauled in $1,280,000, plus another $32,800 in other benefits and allowances, says the story .
And you can bet their salaries have gone up since then.
Meanwhile, over the holiday season, avoid anything and everything to do with the studios and labels like the plague.
Want to see a movie? Support your local retailer, not Hollywood. Rent one, or go to the library.
Ditto with music, and if you’re not sure what not to buy, RIAAradar.com will be able to help. Use it to instantly tell if an album was released by an RIAA member.
Ho Ho Ho! 
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
p2pnet – RIAA boss ‘earned’ $1,472,944 in 2006, February 22, 2008
December, 2009
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December 24th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Yup. It’s just as I thought. Even when it’s Christmas, they’ll still act like corporate assholes. Let’s see if we can keep the boycott going and give them a lot of coal this year!
I hope you all have a Merry Label-Free Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
December 25th, 2009 at 3:28 am
“Working together with ICE and the IPR Center, key federal law enforcement agencies and the entertainment industry have struck a real blow to the illegal trafficking of pirated and counterfeit goods during the important holiday season,” says the RIAA’s Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol.
Really? Did they realize I uploaded 3 popular albums in lossless and other formats around Christmas Eve? Oh sweet! One of the albums already has had “94″ downloads in the last 5 days!!! Merry Christmas to those downloaders! AND FUCK YOU, MITCH BAINWOL!!!
I’m really enjoying this.
December 25th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I fail to see why the movie industry is bawwing. They again are seeing record profits. Especially with the growing popularity of ‘difficult’ to pirate 3D movies filling their pockets with extra cash. People are queueing around the theatres to see Avatar right now. I will laugh my head of next year when 3D HDTV’s start to appear and the first ‘pirated’ 3D movie gets uploaded (I am not talking about the red and blue glasses variety here). They are probably pushing 3D so heavily because they believe it is next to impossible for it to be pirated. That may be the case for those recorded from cinema screens. Not so for the BluRay images when they arrive though.
Still. We shall see
January 4th, 2010 at 2:52 am
Ok. They ceased firing on the people but it is too late.
We want them all dead and the boycott is on for good.
If they were to surender to us compensate the victims they extorted including Jamie Thomas and Tenenbraum we might let them live but I am not holding my breath on that.
So let’s prepare to finish them out. Let make 2010 the year the entertainment corporate parasites and criminals got extinct.